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45 years ago the original Alpine a110
won the Monte Carlo Rally here's the new
Alpena 110
there's my iconic rally stages then we
ought to start with the Col de Turini
there are a lot of good roads between
here and the Col de Turini though so
these are the roads that forged the out
pink reputation and you can see exactly
why it's designed like it is these roads
at time then narrow their twisting they
are hopelessly put there are so many
bent you never stop turning the steering
wheel
now before we came out here to do this I
spoke to a chap called jean-claude and
Roy who was the winner of the 1973 Monte
Carlo Rally and I asked him you know
what made the original Alpena 110
such a good rally car and he said it's
simple
we were never as powerful as the escorts
we had eighty a hundred horsepower less
than the escorts but we were light and
we were nimble and he said that was what
really made the difference
it's what forged the album's reputation
and what they've tried to recapture with
the new one
so you can hear the exhaust on the
overrun is all burbles and chatters away
when you have it in sport mode they stop
quite endearing really it's not the most
charismatic engine in the world if I'm
honest however it's not quite as
pantomime use the Porsche Caymans is and
the Porsche Caymans for me does cheapen
the whole experience because they've
sort of whacked up the volume to try and
make up for any lack of cylinders
basically but it's just a really joyful
car to drive the album it's more of a
chassis car than an engine car the
engines good actually and responsive and
fast because I'm gonna move much weight
but you're still thinking we're out yeah
it does the job but really what I'm
really excited by is just how
efficiently effectively and enjoyably it
gets around corners meant to be driving
by do get a bit distracted by what's
going on outside the windows lightness
has always been central to the Albion
philosophy the new a 110 weighs only
1,100 kilos quarter of a ton less than a
Porsche Cayman it's almost entirely
aluminium chassis bodywork and double
wishbone suspension the engine is in the
middle
it's a turbocharged four-cylinder 1.8
with 259 horsepower it drives the rear
wheels via a twin clutch gearbox and
with little weight involved nought to
sixty two takes just 4.5 seconds so
unfashionably it doesn't use adaptive
dampers just passive SAR no switching
between softer and harder and so on it's
really good they've done a really nice
job of leveling it out so it's it feels
sporty yet has the ability to glide and
yet on rough surfaces it's uncanny
where harder tougher wider tired cars
would get sort of jiggled and bounced
around quite ferociously this just feels
very mellow it's really nice it's sort
of
it's uncanny in its ability to sort of
just glide over difficult roads so the
downside of that is that occasionally on
rough roads the ALP in because it's like
it so bobbled around by the road surface
a bit but the faster you code the
smoother it gets and we're going to use
so many cliches but it is and I am going
to use this cliched lotus-like and it's
a in the way it changes direction and
the way it feels as it goes down a road
now being honest I would like a bit more
steering bite and feel it's not a
massive thing because the chassis is so
so good but when you turn into corners I
just like it to be a little bit sharp
and I know why Renault hasn't been able
to do it or hasn't done it a because it
would have made it ultra it's all too
aggressive more aggressive than they
wanted it to feel and also it would be
more difficult to engineer with the
softness they've got on the springs but
it's when you come up to hair pins and
you turn it in and it just glides around
them there's no real sense of inertia to
it it's a very beguiling car it's not
it's adult difficult car to get your
head round because it's not a
traditional sports car it's not like the
Cayman or the Audi TT this is something
different something different than
something really
quite pleasant pleasant that's an awful
word to use it's not pleasant it's mega
actually so we have come up round
countless hairpins we are at the Col de
Turini this is the famous crossroads
where you see all the rally cars come
lapping through but it is not the top of
the mountain so we are going to carry on
going higher
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so we wanted to get the alpide to the
top of the mountain and the snows got
too deep and we haven't quite managed it
but look up look what it's come through
it's this is deep snow it's done a
terrific job it's night it's nimble it's
really agile it feels different to other
sports cars and it's done a great great
job today
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